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An end to Nordic exceptionalism? Europeanisation and Nordic development policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Nordic countries have traditionally been praised for their generous and advanced development policies. Recently, however, it has been claimed that the Nordic model has faded: that the Nordic donors have become more similar to other European donors ...
Carbone M.   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Challenges in the Measurement of Public Sector Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Productivity Monitor, 2017
Productivity is one of the main engines of economic growth. While most existing work on productivity has focused on the private sector, there is great value in better understanding productivity in the public sector, given government's important role in ...
Edwin Lau   +2 more
doaj  

The Decoupling of Median Wages from Productivity in OECD Countries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Productivity Monitor, 2017
Over the past two decades, aggregate labour productivity growth in most OECD countries has decoupled from real median compensation growth, implying that increasing productivity is no longer sufficient to raise real wages for the typical worker.
Cyrille Schwellnus   +2 more
doaj  

JANIS: NEA JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
JANIS (JAva-based Nuclear Data Information System) software is developed by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Data Bank to facilitate the visualization and manipulation of nuclear data, giving access to evaluated nuclear data libraries, such as ENDF ...
Soppera Nicolas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digitalization and Productivity: In Search of the Holy Grail - Firm-level Empirical Evidence from European Countries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Productivity Monitor, 2019
This article assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts ...
Peter Gal   +4 more
doaj  

Firm-level Productivity Differences: Insights from the OECD’s MultiProd Project [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Productivity Monitor, 2017
Productivity plays a central role in shaping the welfare of societies and the competitiveness of countries. Productivity differences, for instance, explain a large share of the differences in income per capita across countries.
Giuseppe Berlingieri   +3 more
doaj  

Why Do Governments Sell Privatised Companies Abroad? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper provides an empirical analysis of Governments' decisions to sell privatised companies on both international and domestic markets in a sample of 392 privatisations in 42 countries.
Bortolotti, Bernardo   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

New features and improved uncertainty analysis in the NEA nuclear data sensitivity tool (NDaST)

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
Following the release and initial testing period of the NEA’s Nuclear Data Sensitivity Tool [1], new features have been designed and implemented in order to expand its uncertainty analysis capabilities.
Dyrda J.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tell Us

open access: yesTuning Journal for Higher Education, 2014
As innovation increasingly fuels economic growth, higher education institutions and systems face the challenge of equipping students with the skills required by innovative economies.
Francesco Avvisati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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